Union Leaders and MPs Call for Freedom for Colombian Political Prisoners

Justice For Colombia News |
on: Monday, 1 December 2008

A letter sent last week to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, calls on his regime to stop imprisoning people for political reasons and to release four named political prisoners. Signed by the leaders of virtually all of Britain's trade unions as well as various Members of Parliament, the letter says that "the ongoing imprisonment of people for political reasons makes a mockery of claims that human rights are respected in Colombia" and that the detentions are "a clear example of state-sponsored harassment of trade unionists, human rights defenders and members of the political opposition."

A letter was also sent by the same individuals to judges in two of the named cases asking why those being held were still in jail, one of them a year after being detained, despite having been convicted of no crime whatsoever.